Browsing Topic Best Musical Quotes

It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.

In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the ‘epic’ one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

My musical career was an accident.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I’ve got only the keyboard in my poor head.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I’m doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

Music is an addiction.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know — trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own — coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades ’cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

But I mean, again, Zappa’s far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

The biggest secret weapon we had in regards to really being true to this part of the world, and making sure this part of the world could see themselves in this film [Moana] in a way that felt positive and accurate, was Opetaia, my co-writer, Opetaia Foa’i, who has a great band called Te Vaka and is an amazing musical and cultural ambassador.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa.

I would do a musical, but I can’t sing.

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn’t appreciate her music – it wouldn’t appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.